Zionists Lay the Groundwork for a Military
Strike Against Iran by Kim Petersen
www.dissidentvoice.org
December 19, 2006

“Jewish
leaders” have latched onto the wiry figure of beleaguered Iranian
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the latest straw man for the crimes of
zionism. Meeting in New York, "Jewish leaders" declared their intention to
bring Ahmadinejad to trial for inciting genocide. [1]

The case against Ahmadinejad is based upon
the regurgitated canard that he had called for "wiping Israel off the
map." [2] Second, is the absurd complaint that
Ahmadinejad is a holocaust-denier, as if denying or questioning history
should be a crime. [3] The forced acceptance of an
"official" history of the World War II Holocaust is paradigmatically
similar to the compelling of Winston Smith (in George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four) to believe that "2+2=5." Third, is Iran's alleged pursuit
of nuclear and ballistic missile capacity. So far, Iran's pursuit of
nuclear technology has been within the parameters of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. [4] Israel, however, arrogantly
grants itself the right to actions and attempts to deny the same right to
others. Logically, if Iran is guilty of inciting genocide for pursuing
nuclear and ballistic missile technology, then Israel must be guilty of
the same, or worse, since it has already attained both nuclear and
ballistic missile technology.

Besides, even if Iran were inciting
genocide, and as wicked as this would be, it pales in comparison to the
malevolence of the actual perpetration of genocide, of which the Israeli
regime is guilty among other crimes. [5]

But these are not stupid "Jewish leaders,"
so a question arises: what do these leaders really intend to accomplish
with their fraud? JTA News makes this clear: the "Jewish leaders"
seek "to lay the groundwork for a military strike if diplomacy [sic]
and legal action don't derail Iran's quest for nuclear weapons."

JTA News
is not easily dismissed. The New York City-headquartered JTA dates back
around the end of World War I, billing itself as the Global News Service
of the Jewish People. Its website claims the Jewish community relies upon
JTA as "the single most credible source of news and analysis available
about events and issues of Jewish interest anywhere in the world."

JTA News
quotes attorney Alan Dershowitz, "We will try the law. We will try
politics. We will try everything." He adds, "But if they fail, we will use
self-defense." Dershowitz has already pre-judged the issue. To hell with
the law and to hell with politics! If legal and political avenues do not
accede to zionist aims, then Zionists will resort to whatever means
necessary to achieve their aims. And this comes from the mouth of a
Harvard law professor!

Aiding Dershowitz in his above-the-law
vendetta is former Canadian minister of justice Irwin Cotler. They are
preparing justification for "military preemption" if other efforts fail.

"We waited once, we will not wait again,"
said Dershowitz, who like other speakers evoked the global silence as the
Nazis prepared the Holocaust. "Do not expect passive acceptance of
genocide. We will fight back."

Dershowitz must battle former soldiers in
the Israeli occupation army who do heed the admonition against keeping
silent in the face of atrocities. A group of ex-Israeli occupation
soldiers have formed
Break the Silence, which does just that around the world. Said
Break the Silence member Yehuda Shaul: "We provide the tools for people to
understand the deeply woven moral corruption and numbness of what we do
[in Occupied Palestine]. It's like a slide; once you start going down, you
keep going down." [6]

It takes a lot of chutzpah for Dershowitz
(not surprising since he is said to be
beyond chutzpah) to invoke a right to fight back against a
fraudulently alleged incitement to genocide. Unless one initiates a fight
against you, you cannot correctly be said to be fighting back. As
for the "passive acceptance of genocide," that is exactly what too many
Israeli Jews and too many other regimes and their citizens are guilty of
vis-à-vis the Palestinians today.

Taking down Ahmadinejad legally is one
recourse Dershowitz and his fellow cronies may futilely attempt since
leaders of nation states have diplomatic immunity (applicable before all
except hyper-powers, which the hapless duo of Manuel Noriega and Saddam
Hussein discovered). Some speakers pointed to the "successful" cases to
prosecute former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet and former
Serbian-Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic as war criminals under
international law. Successful? Both were eventually arraigned, but the
trials were never concluded. This is hardly "successful."

It must also be noted that neither Pinochet
nor Milosevic was a leader at the time of his arraignment.

Nonetheless, Jewish leaders have graciously
"give[n] the international community a chance to prove itself" by trying
the legal route.

Speaking for the Jewish leaders, Dershowitz
issued a warning:

If the international community fails, if
this challenge is not met, we reserve the right of self-defense.
We pledge here today to do everything it takes, and anything it
takes, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. We will
not fail. We cannot fail. [italics added]

If the international community caves into
the illegitimate demands of Jewish (or other) leaders, then it will have
failed. The silent international community, however, is already failing
the victimized Palestinian people and the result is another bloody stain
on humanity.

Kim Petersen,
Co-Editor of Dissident Voice, lives in the Republic of Korea. He
can be reached at:
kim@dissidentvoice.org. ENDNOTES